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Subject: Re: None of these tests are truly scientific!

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 13:03:15 01/26/99

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On January 26, 1999 at 15:54:03, KarinsDad wrote:

>If Bionic and Crafty were 95% similar, but Bionic and Fritz were 93% similar,
>what have you proved?

With three programs so far we are getting similarities of 60-63%.  If this
holds, and yet Crafty returns with 85%, I think it would argue that Bionic is
not very dissimilar to Crafty, in an evaluation/search sense.

If everything came back around 60%, including Crafty, it would put the onus on
Bob to figure out why he got a 100% result when he did a related test some time
ago.

It wouldn't indicate that the amount of work done on the program is sufficient
to negate Bob's authorship.

In any case, I'm interested in seeing what the result will be, aren't you?

Statistical insignificance is also an interesting conclusion.

bruce



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